Well see those purple triangles finally disappear. About 10,000 customers are still in the dark this morning. At last check, electricity has been restored to 335,000 customers. Many of them lost electricity on sunday. We are still at risk of fires even if the red flag warning is over. A small wildfire broke out before 8 00 last night. This is in napa and sonoma counties. Crews were able to get that under control. In orange county, its quite a different story. The race to contain two fastmoving wildfires being pushed by the santa ana winds, nearly 70,000 people are under a mandatory evacuation this morning. Jobina is tracking that and these questions about how one of these fires started. Jobina . Thank you. Good morning. Fire crews say they could see a break later today when the winds start to die down. The fires started on monday. So far the silverado fire in the hills above irvine burned 13,000 acres. Its 5 contained. The blue ridge fire is about 15 miles away. It burned 15,000 acres with no containment. Ten homes burned in the blue ridge fire. This morning there are new questions about what sparked the silverado fire. Southern california edison is investigating if power lines are to blame for all of this. The utility is defending the decision to turn off power for just 30 customers monday morning. All right. Thank you. Orange county firefighters made this special rescue yesterday. They shared this video of one of their crews finding this small barn owl lying on the dirt near the silverado fire. They wrapped him up in the fire jacket. Hes safe and sound with animal rescue. This morning dozens of employees and patients at a Ucsf Medical Center are under quarantine after several patients and Health Care Workers tested positive for coronavirus. Abc7 News ReporterJulian Glover is live with more on this. Julian . Good morning. The San Francisco chronicle reporting at least five people, two patients, three Health Care Workers testing positive for covid19 at the ucsf helen diller Medical Center in the last week leading to 40 other people connected to the hospital either quarantining or isolating out of caution. Abc7 news reached out to ucsf this morning. We have not confirmed the details in the chronicle article which said that two patients who shared a room tested negative for the virus when they arrived at the hospital. When one of the patients was set to be discharged, they then tested positive. That triggered Contact Tracing which turned up the second patient sharing the room with the first identified case then testing positive as well along with three workers who cared for those two patients. As a result, 28 additional employees were quarantined and 15 additional patients were placed in precautionary isolation. A ucsf spokeswoman told the chronicle that. So far all of the additional employees and patients have tested negative for the virus. All five patients identified in a threeday span in one unit of the hospital. The five positive cases. We are currently working to confirm the details of this story. As soon as we hear back from ucsf well let you know. Reporting live, Julian Glover, abc7 news. Thank you. In the north bay, Sonoma CountyHealth Officials say a dozen workers at Healdsburg District Hospital tested positive for covid19 in the past ten days. They say Contact Tracing shows that the 12 workers were exposed to the virus outside of the hospital and no patients have been infected. Were expecting to get an update from the Santa Clara CountyHealth Department today. Health officials will hold a briefing about covid19 at 10 00 this morning. You can stream it live at abc7news. Com and on our abc7 news app. Multiple bay area counties are now in the orange tier. So this means that contra costa, san mateo and marin counties are allowed to expand their reopenings. That includes nonessential offices, outdoor stadiums at 20 capacity and indoor gyms, theme parks, indoor bowling and cardrooms at 25 capacity. You can find out more by going to abc7news. Com. Now your voice your vote. President trump and joe biden crisscrossing key battleground states today. The president and democratic vp candidate Kamala Harris both head to arizona. Biden will deliver remarks on his plans to beat covid19, but hell do that virtually. President Trumps Campaign website is back up and running after it was hacked. Yesterday the Campaign Communications director said hackers defaced the website. They posted that the world has had enough of the fake news spread by President Trump. They claim to sell damaging information about the president. Law enforcement is investigating the surs the source of that attack. You have six days to cast your vote. For resources head to abc7news. Com election. The heads of twitter, facebook and google are in the hot seat. The support for working par during a pandemic. Funding has been approved for a new Child Care Program in the north bay. And a live look from our roof cam where the temperature is 54 degrees. The winds are relatively light. The flags on the Ferry Building not really moving. Temperatures today anywhere from 3 to 8 degrees warmer than average. Even woman after covid, my hours got so we cant pay our bills. And now our Family Budget is gonna be hit hard with prop 15. The yes on 15 ads say it only raises taxes on big corporations. Thats not true were all going to pay. 11 billion in new property taxes will get passed on to Small Businesses and farms. Theyll raise prices. Higher gas, health care, food. Even day care. We cant make ends meet now. Families cant afford 15. No on prop 15. Welcome back. 6 09 on this wednesday. Lets head down into the south bay and look at neighborhood temperatures. Mid 40s to around 50 for the hills, then mid to upper 50s. 37 in fairfield. 40 in sebastopol and novato. Alameda, San Francisco, low to mid 50s. For today, whether youre working from home or remote learning, make sure you get outside. Just know its going to be chilly this morning unless you turned the heater on. Our house is about 66 degrees right now. Not turning the heater on. Heres the fire index, low to moderate throughout today, tomorrow and into thursday. So we have put the worst behind us. Theres some good news. How about you, jobina, what are you seeing on the roads this morning . Overall its been a smooth morning. Looking live at the bay bridge toll plaza. We do not have metering lights on yet according to the chp, you can clearly see i stand corrected. As of right now, 6 10, metering lights came on. I was going to say it looks like they are. Moving over to our 880 camera at the Oakland Coliseum area, im showing you this because as you travel north bbound, you may be able to make out the brake lights there. Thats because of a disabled tractor trailer. You will run into a slowdown on northbound 880 by the 5th avenue offramp. Speeds are down to 10 and 31 Miles Per Hour and they ran a traffic break. Thank you. Two San Francisco high schools are one step closer to inperson learning. The green light they just received from the city. And a display coming soon to golden state park. As we head to break, a live look outside at 6 11. We will be asof being stretched too thinar to do my job right. And its not just Health Care Workers. Our teachers and school staff are going the extra mile for our kids. Our firefighters are taking on unthinkable missions to keep us safe. How can we keep giving billions in tax breaks to rich corporations when our communities need that money . Prop 15 closes corporate loopholes and invests in our schools, health care, and public safety. Help us do our jobs. Vote yes on 15. Three tech giants go before congress today. Republicans are accusing facebook, twitter and google of anticonservative bias and election interference. The three ceos will appear remotely. Theyre expected to argue against repealing a key internet law called section 230 which protects online businesses from being punished for content users create. The Senate CommerceCommittee Hearing gets under way at 7 00 this morning. Students at two private high schools may soon return to classrooms for the First Time Since march. Archbishop Riordan High School and stern school passed city inspections and received per migs to allmig permissions to go back to campus. Other private schools including st. Ignatius college prep and schools of the sacred heart convent, stewart hall and San FranciscoUniversity High school are close to gaining approval. In the north bay, santa rosa approved the creation of a Pilot Program for child care providers that have been deeply affected by the covid19 pandemic. The press democrat reports that it will be funded using 2 million in federal coronavirus aid funds. The City Council Approved deals with first five Sonoma County and the Community Child care council in Sonoma County. Happening today in San Francisco, the legion of honor will reopen for members only. Its been closed since midmarch because of the pandemic. Members will be able to get their first look at alexander singhs a gothic tale which will run through november 6th. The museum opens to everyone on friday. And golden state park will transform into this winter wonderland. This display full of sculptured light trees and illuminated meadows is called entwined. A San Franciscobased artist designed this. Its part of the parks 150th anniversary celebration. You can check it out december 1st through february 28th. Look at her glowing. Speaking of winter, why are you trying to freeze barbara with 66 degrees in that house, mike nicco. Oops. I am i the keeper of the thermostat . Yes, you were like, were not turning on the heat. I heard you. I did say that. I did say that. I did, youre right. Well open the windows later when its 80. Well let in some of that warmth and hope it stays overnight. Mmhmm. You know what ill do . Once the show is over, ill put an extra blanket on her. Thats okay. Sweet. Oreo is sleeping with her. Thats how i know its getting colder at night, he comes back and starts sleeping at her legs because he gets cold. Yeah. I should listen to my family. East bay hills, heres a look. Its very calm up there. 3 Miles Per Hour to 7 Miles Per Hour winds, 60 degrees. Well have warm sunshine, dry air, relatively calm winds. What we want during an autumn unlike what weve been dealing with with the fire danger. A new month begins sunday. Were supposed to get colder. Nope. Getting warmer. We have wild temperature swings next week. Lets talk about whats going on now. You can see were still in that huge bowl of dry air. This is an omega block high pressure. That means the jet stream will be steered around us and no where near us will be any cold fronts coming until possibly next tuesday. Even that one doesnt promise much in the way of rain. It promises slightly milder temperatures. 75 to 81 in the south bay today. 74 to 77, a little narrower range on the peninsula. 66 to 68 along the peninsula coast. Low to mid 70s downtown, south San Francisco and also sausalito. 77 to 82 through the north bay valleys. Along the east bay shore, 72 in richmond until about 76 in fremont and also in hayward. Heading inland, 78 to about 81 degrees. Tonight, were back in the 40s. Some 30s in the deepest valleys. 50s around San Francisco, san mateo and oakland. Pretty steady through saturday. You can see it gets warmer for the first two days of november and then for election day tuesday, slightly cooler. Still warmer than average. Kumasi, reggie . Thanks. Good morning america is coming up at 7 00 on abc7. And ginger zee is in pass christian, mississippi with a look at whats ahead. Great to be with you on a wednesday morning. Again along the gulf coast. 27th named storm of the season. If it makes landfall in louisiana as we anticipate later tonight, thats the fifth landfalling storm, named storm in louisiana alone. 11th of the season, we have only done that twice before. Records aside, have to tell you the impacts here for the folks along the gulf coast could be six to nine feet of storm surge. Wind gusts 75 to 90 Miles Per Hour. This thing will be cooking through central alabama, even north georgia could see power outages. I will track all of that for our friends here. Also you know well cover that race to the finish. Six days until final votes and nearly 70 million americans casting their ballots. President trump and joe biden still making that final push on the campaign trail and we have our brandnew poll from two crucial battleground states. Then a dire warning as covid hospitalizations have now reached record highs in at least 11 states. Theres some states cracking down as overwhelmed hospitals are buckling under the pressure. Doctors warning that they may not be able to keep up. Well bring you all those stories and s [whats this . ] oh, are we kicking karly out . We live with at t. It was a lapse in judgment. At t, we called this house meeting because you advertise gigspeed internet, but we cant sign up for that here. Yeah, but im just like warming up to those speeds. Youve lived here two years. The personal attacks arent helping, karly. Dont you have like a hot pilates class to get to or something . [ muffled scream ] stop living with at t. Xfinity can deliver gig to the most homes. They all endorse yes on prop 25. To end unfair, unjust, discriminatory money bail. Governor gavin newsom and van jones. Theyre voting yes on 25. The western center on law and poverty. The Dolores Huerta foundation. Californians for safety and justice. And the California Democratic party. They all agree that the size of your wallet shouldnt determine whether or not youre in jail. So, vote yes on prop 25. All right. Welcome back. Lets look at our temperatures. You can see the marine layer starts to touch parts of the coast and the bay heading through friday. Then it goes away for saturday, halloween, even more so sunday as temperatures continue to warm. Now heres a look at that cold front i was talking about. As we head through monday into tuesday, it looks promising, look at that moisture just evaporate heading through election day and leaves us with maybe a few sprinkles. It will be cooler. All right. Its a tough morning for giants fans out there. Heres reggie to tell you why. Yes. Its because the dodgers are world series champs for the First Time Since 1988. Thats the good news for some of you. The bad news is that one of the players during the game found out that he is covid positive. World series victory. So the social distancing was kind of happening during the ceremony here to get the trophy. Sources tell our Sister Network espn that during the eighth inning Justin Turner got pulled out of the game because his test he took on tuesday came back positive. Then for reasons i cannot understand, after the game they sat inches apart from one another and the same guy that just tested positive took his mask off totally. I dont understand. He wanted that picture. Congrats, i guess . We guess. Well, in the south bay, look at that, these groups of wild pigs terrorizing san jose neighbors wont be controlled with bows and arrows. The pigs have been destroying yards for quite awhile now and residents are frustrated. They were hopeful about a new plan to take out the animals, yesterday the city decided against bows and arrows and instead decided theyll get the county involved. I hope the county can restart their program, which was successful in maintaining the population for many years. Now its gotten out of control. I open my front door, i confronted some of them. One of them was kind of aggressive. Currently licensed trappers are able to catch and kill the wild pigs within city limits. This morning Governor Newsom is doubling down on his decision to keep theme parks closed in california. We should be concerned about opening up a large theme park where by definition people mix from every conceivable walk of life and put themselves and others at increased risk of seeing transmission rates rise. Governor newsom refused to say the word disneyland, which is owned by abc7s parent company. When asked why other theme parks in the u. S. Are getting to reopen. Newsom said it is still too dangerous with parks bringing in other tourists from nearby hotels and restaurants. Chrissy teigen is opening up about the tragic loss of her son when she was 20 weeks pregnant. The model and author writes about it in a heart wrenching essay on the website medium. She describes what happened and why she and her husband, singer john legend, chose to share their story and hospital photos on social media. She writes in part, i had asked my mom and john to take pictures no matter how uncomfortable it was. It didnt make sense to him at the time. I knew i needed to know of this moment forever. Teigen says she is now trying to heal writing im surrounded in a human therapy blanket of love. We wish her the best. Yes. Next at 6 30, the bignamed company thats hiring in the bay area. The work that would